NOMAD

With the advancement of the sensor network technology and cyber physical systems [2], the merging between the virtual cyber space and the real physical world is bound to happen, which will impact the lifestyle of the human being. The metropolitan area sensor networks, composed of millions of heterogeneous sensors and penetrating every aspect of the city life, provide gigantic amount of real-time information of the city, which makes it possible to reconstruct the real world in an on-line cyber space.